Referral links now open a popup directly on your store, displaying a personalized message and code. This keeps friends engaged without leaving your site, reducing redirects and minimizing drop-offs.

The Friend Offer Popup automatically matches your Shopify color scheme and font. You can also upload a custom background image.

Activation steps:

• Go to your Shopify theme editor -> App Embeds -> toggle on Friend Offer Popup
• Go to your ReferralCandy dashboard -> Campaign editor -> Widgets ->toggle off Friend Offer Page

This feature is currently only available for Shopify merchants.

Say hello to the Advocates page: this latest feature lets you easily access a comprehensive list of all past and present advocates in your referral campaigns. Simply go to Campaigns, open up the Editor and find the Advocates page on the left sidebar.

Stay tuned as we build more improvements to optimize your referral campaigns!

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You can now access certain ReferralCandy pages in your Shopify dashboard! This means less time switching between platforms and more time focusing on growing your business.

Stay tuned as we add more pages to operate ReferralCandy from your Shopify dashboard.

Merchants using Shopify's Checkout Extensibility feature will see these events in a contact's activity log:

-> When an advocate is shown the sign up form or their referral link on the Referral Extension

-> When an advocate clicks any of the sharing links in the Referral Extension: Messenger, WhatsApp, Facebook, X, Email

If you're on Shopify, you can now easily enable different discount combinations for both advocate rewards and friend offer coupon codes. 

You may choose to allow discount combinations for:

• Product discounts
• Order discounts
• Shipping discounts

To start using this feature, go to Campaigns -> Rewards -> Advocate Reward or Friend Offer tab. 

Start waitlisting customers who buy from your store but don't qualify for your target audience. Best used with a dynamic segment.

With our new Referral Extension, promoting your referral program to happy customers is easier than ever!

• Simply add the Referral Extension as an app block in your Shopify Theme Editor. Learn More
• Choose between showing the referral link immediately or after signup - customise this on the Widgets page.

This feature is currently only available to Shopify Plus merchants with Checkout Extensibility enabled.

With our new Overview page, you can now get a quick summary of how your campaign works. Any changes to your campaign settings is automatically reflected in this dynamic page.

You may now edit and update translations for the following advocate account emails in the editor.

1. Cash Payout Email

2. Verification Email

3. Reverification Email

4. Reset Password Email

5. Messaging Preferences Email

To view and make changes, head to the ReferralCandy dashboard, select Email & Pages and Edit the theme you desire. If you have multi-language feature enabled, you may also update translations under the Edit All Text editor. 

To allow greater flexibility in customizing your assets, banners can be added or removed from the following assets:

- Join Page

- Share Page

- Post-Purchase Popup

To do so, head into the edit mode of a theme and look for the Remove banner from checkbox and dropdown selector.